Experience

Better Angels
• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Director of Engineering

  • Jun 2023 - Present


sweetgreen

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Manager - Foundational Tech

  • May 2022 - Jun 2023

  As an Engineering Manager at sweetgreen, I have played a pivotal role in streamlining the Foundational Technology team's operations, enhancing efficiency, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and development. My accomplishments include: • Successfully restructuring and consolidating the Foundational Technology teams to create a unified and cohesive unit, which has led to improved cross-domain coordination and the development of more effective engineering solutions. • Implementing sprint cadence to align the team with organizational priorities, resulting in a more focused approach to deliverables and enhanced overall productivity. • Establishing a stakeholder meeting that has improved coordination, prioritization, and communication with Foundational Technology stakeholders across the organization. • Demonstrating strong ownership and accountability by leading cost reduction initiatives for key resources like AWS, Datadog, and CircleCI. • Conducting architecture reviews and implementing improvements to ensure alignment with best practices, efficient resource utilization, and minimization of technical debt and future maintenance overhead. • Simplifying Terraform processes by implementing Atlantis for pull request automation, streamlining infrastructure as code management, and fostering better collaboration among team members. • Leading an engineering book club initiative that has expanded the team's technical knowledge, soft skills, and product mindset, encouraging a continuous learning environment and personal growth. Show less



TenantBase

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• VP of Engineering

  • Mar 2019 - Nov 2021

  At TenantBase I was charged with growing and mentoring a nimble, highly collaborative, and self-empowered team. Most of my time was spent improving organizational and technical processes, mentoring our engineers, and acting as Full Stack contributor. Processes Implemented • Propose, prioritize, and execute engineering and product initiatives. • Encourage and participate in 1:1s cross organization, with direct reports, and between team members. • On-Call to address and prioritize emergent issues and establish clear channels of communication. • Work with management to simplify processes and establish common knowledgebases. • Establish and run engineering interview process. • Career growth and compensation reviews. • Managed AWS spend and cost optimization. • Create internship process for potential future hires. Organizational Impact • Advocate and implement 9/80 work schedule (every other Friday off). • Advocate for corporate 401k later implemented in 2020. Development Environment Improvements • Foster a culture of collaboration and mentorship. • Linode to AWS cloud migration. • Vagrant to Docker development. • 0 downtime deploys. • Monitoring and Alerting with DataDog. • Create Staging environment for release testing and experimental code. • Shorter test times for more iteration. • VPN for remote development in response to COVID-19. • NextJS for SEO page generation. • Jenkins CI/CD. B2B Relations • Act as technical point of contact for TenantBase partner integrations. Show less



ZEFR

• United States
• Advertising Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Machine Learning Engineer

  • Jun 2018 - Mar 2019

  I joined ZEFR Data Science team to accelerate the inception to delivery process of our machine learning models. My proposal focused on transitioning away from Scala to Python (Pandas, scikit-learn, dask, dask-ml, LighGBM) as it more closely aligned with the skill sets the market has to offer.A primary driver to success was a well tested library developed alongside ZEFRs Principal Data Scientist for common data extraction, transformation, and featurizations problems. This improved our confidence in the correctness of models, greatly reduced code duplication throughout Jupyter notebooks, and allowed our Data Scientists more time on model R&D. I on-boarded two new hires and familiarize them with this process. Both of which were able to successfully develop a model in the first several weeks. One of which went on to run several millions of dollars of client spend and is on track for more. Show less

• Lead Site Reliability Engineer / SWE

  • Dec 2017 - Jun 2018

  As a SRE I fostered a culture of collaboration, documentation, and open feedback by championing the RFC process (request for comment process). Several initiatives which I proposed and lead to adoption: Secret management, infrastructure as code, microservice deployment, consolidation of our cloud environments, and feature flag driven development. The SRE team and I acted as a mentors to help grow our engineering talent in the areas of continuous delivery, monitoring, alerting, distributed systems, secret management, API development, production debugging, and testing. My days consisted of jumping into various codebases (Python, Scala, Groovy, JavaScript, etc) throughout ZEFR to identify root causes of production degradations, fix critical critical bugs, implement performance improvements, simplify build jobs, and develop features. I became intimately familiar with our production Kafka environment and idententified fixes for several chronic instability issues. This resulted in less operational burden and increased system reliability. I provided the rest of engineering insight to our cloud infrastructure costs and identified cost saving measures which resulted in roughly $1.5M/year in savings. Show less

• Senior Software Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer

  • Mar 2017 - Dec 2017


Crabel Capital Management
• United States
• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Data Engineer

  • Jan 2017 - Mar 2017


Riot Games

• United States
• Computer Games
• 700 & Above Employee

• Mid Level Software Engineer

  • Apr 2015 - Oct 2016

  • Founded Python community of practice to connect developers, share best practices, provide an environment where Rioters at all levels can learn, and participate in community outreach. • Advocated for and built continuous delivery pipeline utilizing AWS, Terraform, ECS, Docker, and Jenkins Pipeline DSL. Minimized snowflake deployment processes and increased traceability/repeatability. • Authored several RFCs to connect and align engineers around organizational challenges: Securely protecting and sharing secret keys, Python package sharing, Python style guide, etc. • Centralized internal Python package management and grew it into multi-language solution leveraged by numerous products and teams. • Participated heavily in the interview process and produced survival guide to help prospective candidates better prepare for on-site and navigate Riot’s process confidently. • Mentored Rioters transitioning to the engineering discipline and helped level up existing engineers by growing their technical competences. • Developed several Python based micro-services and web applications for internally-facing tools leveraging Flask, SQLAlchemy, Connexion, and Angular. • Authored Python client for configuration management and service discovery for Riot’s container-based internal cloud environment. • Built Java plugin for Confluence to make it easier to engineers to navigate the RFC Library. Developed proof of concept self-service Perforce access control. • Participated in first iteration of gaining insight into the Engineering Discipline. Gathering and visualizing data to understand our hiring pipeline, community of practice membership, and RFC participation. Show less



Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

• R&D Software Engineer III

  • Jun 2010 - Mar 2015

  • Lead for real-time physically based monte-carlo ray-tracing tool in C++/CUDA leveraging nVidia OptiX. Identified by customers as industry leading and discriminator for awarding future contracts. • Reduced turnaround of IR analysis and multidisciplinary design optimization trade studies from multiple week studies to a few hour batch run. • Developed tools for advanced BRDF data fitting and multiple importance sampling. • Technical Lead for 12 month inception to flight test of mission payload based on Arduino microcontroller. Successful demonstration secured continued funding. • Improved team productivity by implementing Redmine to track project deadlines, feature requests, bug reporting/fixing, and releases milestones. • Streamlined release and verification with automated build and test framework. • Developed several non-linear multi-objective design optimization tools in Java utilizing Particle Swarm and Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II. • Improved data processing, visualization, and analysis using Python. • Saved multi-million dollar program from missing deadlines by rapidly resolving catastrophic failure of mission critical OpenVMS data acquisition system. Improved reliability and maintenance of system by migrating to modern hardware utilizing FreeAXP Alpha Emulator. • Improved acoustic data collection array’s ease of use and reduced setup/teardown time by half, replacing existing wired solution with wireless nodes with 1 mile line of sight range. • Reduced RCS data reduction from 3 weeks to 30 seconds with MatLab tool. • Secured funding for contract by delivering Android embedded platform tech demo. • Clearance Level: Secret SSBI Show less



Westinghouse Electric Company

• Nuclear Electric Power Generation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Electrical Engineering Intern

  • Apr 2009 - Aug 2009

  • Authored QIAS-N Power & Signal routing documentation for Shin Kori 3&4 Nuclear Power Plants. • Designed / assembled a circuit to verify if AC Relay switching times. • Authored QIAS-N Power & Signal routing documentation for Shin Kori 3&4 Nuclear Power Plants. • Designed / assembled a circuit to verify if AC Relay switching times.



Pitney Bowes

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• EMC Engineer - Internship

  • Jan 2008 - Aug 2008

  • Tested and assessed products against relevant regulatory standards. • Collaborated with design engineers to identify and implement solutions to products which failed to meet specifications. • Reverse engineered Hydrometer serial I/O to record lab conditions in Ruby Round-Robin database. • Improved data collection efficiency and audit-ability on compliance and test data forms. • Trained new personnel in lab equipment and test procedures. • Tested and assessed products against relevant regulatory standards. • Collaborated with design engineers to identify and implement solutions to products which failed to meet specifications. • Reverse engineered Hydrometer serial I/O to record lab conditions in Ruby Round-Robin database. • Improved data collection efficiency and audit-ability on compliance and test data forms. • Trained new personnel in lab equipment and test procedures.


Integrity Insurance
• United States
• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Summer Intern

  • May 2007 - Aug 2007

Euro RSCG
• Advertising Services
• IT Intern

  • May 2004 - Aug 2004